A mighty mouse tossed into a cage to be a snake’s supper turned the tables and killed the viper.

Firefighters in Taiwan had caught the snake and found the mouse to feed it, but were shocked when the rodent bit and scratched the poisonous reptile to death.

Lan Sengqiu, the fire chief of Nantou town, said of the snake, “Perhaps it was a novice predator.”

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Sometimes in the fight of brains vs. brawn, brains win – even in a football town.

Football powerhouse Penn State University is putting out a new set of trading cards featuring its top academic stars. Among those featured are Nobel-winning glacialogist Richard Alley and entomologist James Tumlinson, as well as an anthropologist, physicist and nutritionist.

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A student in Michigan tossed holy water on his teacher, believing her to be a witch after she assigned Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” about the Salem Witch Trials.

Police said Darin Najor, 20, also had a lighter and said he wanted to “burn the witch.”

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If she had put a wager on this, they would have been the luckiest triplets alive.

An Englishwoman defied 200-million-to-1 odds by getting pregnant with triplets – while she was on The Pill.

And just days after she and her fiancé found out, the babies were born 13 weeks early.

All weighed just under 2 pounds, but are expected to be fine.

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A British couple was stunned to discover they had accidentally packed their kitten into their luggage when they left for vacation – and that it survived 21 hours of travelling.

“She must have used up quite a few of her nine lives,” said Helen Willmore.